User's Manual
Once this task is added, you may run it on demand at any time; see Running tasks manually on
page 274. You may also save an event log using the Export Event Log tool. See Creating an
Event Log .csv File on page 288.
To add the task:
1. Click the System tab.
2. Click Tasks in the top navigation bar. The Tasks window will open.
3. Click Add. The Add Task Wizard will appear.
4. Select Export event log to a comma separated values (.CSV) file from the drop-down menu.
Type a 1-64 character name for the task.
5. Select a time to run the task (see Specifying when to run tasks on page 262), then click
Next.
6. The Specify Export Event Log Properties window will open.
a. Type the directory in which to create the event log, which may be a physical local
drive on the Rack Power Manager server or at a shared network location specified by a
UNC path. The location cannot be set to a mapped network drive.The directory name
must be entered in case sensitive text if your operating system supports case sensitive
filenames.
b. If the specified directory location is a network drive that requires a log in, enable the
Login required to access shared drive location checkbox. Then, type the username and
password and confirm the password of a user account that has read/write access to the
network share location.
c. To append the date and time (in military time) to the end of the event log file, enable
the Use date and time for file naming checkbox. For example, if you are creating the
event log file on October 1, 2005 at 10:04 pm, the file created will be named
eventlog1001052204.csv.
If an event log exists in the specified directory and you do not enable this
option, it will be overwritten when the new event log is created.
d. Click Next.
7. The Select Event Log Columns to Export window will open.
8. To add one or more columns to export, select the column(s) from the Available Columns
list, then click Add. The column(s) will be moved to the Columns to Export list.
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